RELATION OF BOVINE TO HUMAN TUBERCULOSIS. 
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sented, I would suggest the adoption of such sanitary precau¬ 
tions as may be justly enforced relative to tuberculous people 
and animals ; for every tubercular animal is, to a greater or less 
degree, a disseminator of the tubercular bacillus, and I would 
especially urge the prohibition of the traffic in and sale of the 
food products of tuberculous animals, as may be accomplished 
by proper milk and meat inspection, as indicated in the follow¬ 
ing : 
By the proper use of the tuberculin test and proper sanitary 
measures, the dairy can be freed and kept free from tubercu¬ 
losis, and inspection properly carried out will prevent the sale 
of the flesh of diseased animals. But in order to accomplish 
this we must have laws enacted that will provide for such in¬ 
spection and furnish the money with which to carry on the 
work ; and before this can be accomplished, the general public 
must be educated to have a just appreciation of the dangers 
that constantly attend the use of all foods that may be contam¬ 
inated with tubercular bacilli. 
The Position of the Physician .—As physicians, you have it 
in your power to wield an immense influence for good in this 
field. Good results would soon be manifest if each physician 
would recommend to his patrons the use of, and use in his own 
family only such animal food products as have been properly 
inspected. 
Each and every physician has more or less political influence 
which he should not fail to exert in behalf of wholesome legis¬ 
lation along these lines. This is a just proposition, because the 
question of stamping out tuberculosis, that is, the enactment of 
laws and the appropriation of money to carry on the work, 
savors largely of politics. 
If the medical profession of the State would make a united 
effort in behalf of the suppression of tuberculosis in the dairy 
cattle of the State, it would not be long ere we would have good 
laws and plenty of money with which to carry on the work. 
In conclusion, let me urge you to rouse from your lethargic 
state relative to this disease. Get all of us take an active part 
